Congratulations! CS3216 hasn’t killed you yet.

Yay. I’m still alive after CS3216 ended.

Kent Nguyen

Nov 20, 2016

Effective RESTful API with Koa.js

Exclusively being the backend developer during the course of CS3216 this semester, I chose Koa.js…

Kent Nguyen

Nov 20, 2016

PostgreSQL — Tricks or Treats! (Part 2)

Last time, I discussed three PostgreSQL tips that were used in Happ. Today, I’ll talk about a few more, some of which I utilized during the development of 1our, our final CS3216 project.

Inline Query Population

Kent Nguyen

Oct 31, 2016

PostgreSQL — Tricks or Treats! (Part 1)

In the spirit (no pun intended) of Halloween, today I’ll present you a few tricks (not a…

Kent Nguyen

Oct 23, 2016

Week 6.3: SQL or noSQL?

[This is a long overdued blog post, serving as the 3rd part of the series on Happ, our Assignment 3’s project. Previous part is here.]

Kent Nguyen

Sep 21, 2016

Week 6.2: Recess week + Execution

Picking up where we left off earlier: as we saw the inadequacy of current NUS maps, we challenged ourselves to build Happ, a map alive with real time informational displays and fun user interactions.

Kent Nguyen

Sep 20, 2016

Week 6.1: Recess week + The idea

So it’s halfway through the semester and we’re in the middle of assignment 3.

Thanks to Milestone 16, the assignment recreated the hype around location-based apps (at least among CS3216 students).

Kent Nguyen

Aug 30, 2016

Application Critique: ShopBack

Before the presentation, I knew nothing about ShopBack. As a person with ample “frugal” mentality and thus a frequent visitor to deals/coupons websites such as Massdrop, Groupon and Qoo10, the existence of ShopBack actually surprised me a little.

Week 1: Ask for forgiveness, not permission

During the lecture, Prof. Colin told us to “ask for forgiveness, not permission”, and it struck a chord with me right away.

Congratulations! CS3216 evolved into…

… Software Product Engineering for Digital Markets!

Surely I’m not the only one noticing the name change.